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AWS – Amazon SNS adds support for message archiving and analytics via Kinesis Data Firehose subscriptions
You can now use Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) to deliver messages to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. This new subscription type for SNS enables message storage, analytics, and auditing by providing a simple way to send Amazon SNS messages to data lakes, data stores, and analytics services. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Snowcone now supports multicast streams and routing by providing instances with direct access to external networks
AWS Snowcone now supports multicast streams, routing, load balancing, and other networking use cases by enabling instances on a Snow device to have direct access to an external network. By providing instances with layer 2 network access without any intermediary translation or filtering, customers gain increased flexibility over the network configuration of their Snow device […]
AWS – Amazon Lightsail now supports IPv6
Amazon Lightsail now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) on Lightsail resources like instances, containers, load balancers and CDN. With this launch, Lightsail resources operate in dual-stack mode, accepting both IPv4 and IPv6 client connections. This helps unlock application scenarios where some end user clients are IPv6 only. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing support for Methods via Uniform Function Call syntax in AWS IoT SiteWise
AWS IoT SiteWise now supports usage of methods in formula expressions through Uniform Function Call Syntax (UFCS). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Redshift now supports fine-grained access control on COPY and UNLOAD commands
You can now grant the privilege to run COPY and UNLOAD commands to specific users and groups in your Amazon Redshift cluster to create more fine-grained access control policy. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing the global expansion of AWS Contact Center Intelligence solutions
Today we are delighted to announce the global expansion of AWS Contact Center Intelligence (CCI) solutions powered by AWS AI Services and made available through the AWS Partner Network. With our partners, you can quickly implement AWS CCI solutions to add AWS machine learning (ML) capabilities into your current contact center infrastructure to increase operational […]
GCP – Introducing Ruby on Google Cloud Functions
Cloud Functions, Google Cloud’s Function as a Service (FaaS) offering, is a lightweight compute platform for creating single-purpose, stand-alone functions that respond to events, without having to manage a server or runtime environment. Cloud functions are a great fit for serverless, application, mobile or IoT backends, real-time data processing systems, video, image and sentiment analysis […]
GCP – Migrating data, technology and people to Google Cloud
Editor’s note: Bukalapak, an ecommerce company based in Jakarta, is one of Indonesia’s largest businesses. As their platform grew to serve over 100 million customers and 12 million merchants, they needed a solution that would reliably and securely scale to handle millions of transactions a day. Here, they discuss their migration to Google Cloud and […]
GCP – Compute Engine explained: Scheduling the OS patch management service
Last year, we introduced the OS patch management service to protect your running Compute Engine VMs against defects and vulnerabilities. The service makes patching Linux and Windows VMs with the latest OS upgrades simple, scalable and effective. In this blog, we share a step-by-step guide on how to set up a project with a schedule […]
GCP – 4 best practices for ensuring privacy and security of your data in Cloud Storage
Cloud storage enables organizations to reduce costs and operational burden, scale faster, and unlock other cloud computing benefits. At the same time, they must also ensure they meet privacy and security requirements to restrict access and protect sensitive information. Security is a common concern we hear from companies as they move their data to the […]